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Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 248 - in trunk/debian: . patches



On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:10:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> In article <2YbC.65R.11@gated-at.bofh.it> you wrote:
> > Author: branden
> > Date: 2003-06-26 13:01:11 -0500 (Thu, 26 Jun 2003)
> > New Revision: 248
> 
> > Added:
> >    trunk/debian/patches/093_SECURITY_xterm_window_title_reporting_fix.diff
> >    trunk/debian/patches/094_SECURITY_xterm_DEC_UDK_sequence_DoS_fix.diff
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/debian/changelog
> > Log:
> > add two security patches to xterm
> 
> > debian/patches/093_SECURITY_xterm_window_title_reporting_fix.diff:
> >   SECURITY: disable window title reporting to work around potentially
> >   malicious text being spewed to terminal window
> >   <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0063>
> 
> For #177, I assume you did see the allowWindowOps resource.

It wasn't clear to me from your changelog that that change addressed
this vulnerability, but on reviewing our code from the 4.3.0-sid branch,
I did conclude that our 4.3.0 packages will not be vulnerable to this
(or to the DEC UDK problem, either.)

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     What influenced me to atheism was
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     reading the Bible cover to cover.
branden@debian.org                 |     Twice.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- J. Michael Straczynski

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